biltongs

Noun

biltong (countable and uncountable, plural biltongs)

1. (South Africa, Zimbabwe) A South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying, similar to American jerky.
   • The rest of the buck's flesh we cut into strips and hung in the sun to dry into 'biltong,' as, I believe, the South African Dutch call flesh thus prepared.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC